Undergarment



(No Model.)

1. GOLDBBRGBR.- UNDERGARMENT Patented Jan. 19,' 1897.

UNTTED STATEs l PATENT OEETCE.

IGNATZ GOLDBERGER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

UNDERGARNIENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 575,422, dated January19, 1897. Application filed June 24, 1896- Serial No. 596,791. (Nomodel.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, IGNATZ GOLDBERGER, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State ofOhio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inUndergarments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a high-neck buttonless suit or vest and drawersin one structure that has no vertical or horizontal slit on front orback for the body-opening, but which is provided with two iiaps whichoverlap each other and are attached either to the front or to the backof body portion and having their inclined edges running diagonally leftopen for the slit-opening to enable the wearer to draw same over thehips with ease, while these overlapping parts, when the garment has beenfully drawn on, are secured by a suitable attachment at the upper edgeof the neck-opening, which when fastened will close the opening in a waythat it will not pncker or gape open; also has a double layer ot' cloththrough the whole extent of opening, which gives ample protectionagainst cold and drafts.

The object of my invention is to construct a buttonless high-neckedunion-suit, the body portion of which will be free from any vertical orhorizontal slits forthe body-opening, yet to have an opening for thebody to enter constructed in such a manner as to allow sam e to be drawnover the hips of the wearer with ease, and when drawn on will close overthe body, making it unnecessary to use buttons or any other fasteners,also to have a double layer of cloth to overlap said opening to preventtlle cold air or drafts from striking the body of the wearer, whichobject has not been attained in union-suits heretofore made. Aunion-suit the opening of which is made in the manner that I shall fullydescribe in my invention will considerably lessen the cost ofmanufacture, and if worn by females the same opening can be used fornursing with the greatest ease and comfort.

My invention consists in certain features of noveltyto be hereinafterfully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a view of the upper portion ofa union-suit, showing only the body portion from neck down towaist-line. Fig. 2 is a view of the opening 2, running from thewaist-line tothe neck. A iiap 3, formed substantially in the shape of aright-angle triangle, has its vertical edge attached at 4 along theright-hand side of the opening, and is then lapped over across theopening and upon the left-hand side of the body and is stitched alongthe base or waist-line, as shown at 5. This leaves thediagonally-inclined edge 6 open. Another flap 7, of similar shape, isthen secured in place by having its perpendicular edge stitched alongthe left-hand side of the opening, as shown at 8, and lapped over theopening and the right-hand side of the body on the inside of the garmentand is stitched on its base at the waist-line, as shown at 9. Thisleaves an opening, as indicated at lO, between the iiap 7 and the innerside of the garment. The flaps being thus secured in place, they areheld together at top by a sin gle button ll and buttonhole l2.

When carrying out the invention according to the plan represented inFigs. 5, 6, and

7, the cloth is cut bias from neck to waist, as`

shown in Fig. 5, from A to C, and the edges thus formed are finished soas to be inelastic. A piece of cloth cut in the shape shown in Fig. 6 isthen sewed or knitted to the garment and its edge running from A to B'iinished so as to be inelastic. The edge running from A to D is sewed orknit to the shoulder portion A D, and the side D O is sewedor knit tothe side D O of the garment, and the lower edge O' to B is sewed or knitonto the outside of the garment, running horizontally along the front ofthe waist-line. Moreover, I retain the same essential features of theopening, namely, the closure formed of two overlapped portions,extendingand stitched together at bottom along the front or backwaistline, and having free edges converging upwardly from the ends ofsaid line and meeting at a neck-fastening, as shown. By the modifiedmethod I retain all the advantages of that shown by Figs. l to 4, withthe ad diiional advantage of avoiding one vertical seam entirely andlocating the other at one side.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as newtherein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

An undergarment comprising 4a body portion having a neck-opening and abody-opening extending from said neck-opening to the Waist-line of thegarment, and two closingiiaps located over the body and overlapping ingto the Waist-line at the opposite side sov as to provide two thicknessesof material at the body-opening, the iiaps being stitched together fromside to side at the Waist-line, substantially as described.

IGNATZ GOLDBERGER.

Witnesses:

C. H. GALE, H. O. JONES.

